Metallic tie and rail-fastener.



No. 833,545. PATENTED OCT. 16, 1906.

y L. H. PPLEGHARDT.

METALLIC TIE AND RAIL PASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY B, 1906.

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LEWIS H. PFLEGHARD'L OF FAYETTE CITY, PENNSYLVANIA.

METALLIC TIE AND RAIL-FASTENER- This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in metallic tie and railfasteners; and the invention has for its object to provide a-simple and inexpensive melallic tie for rails whereby novel means is employed in connection with the tie for firmly retaining the rails upon the tie.

The invention aims to dispense with the wood ties and sleepers commonly used upon a ballasted road-bed, which are expensive to maintain and continually need renewing.

In lieu of the wood ties I use metallic ties,-

which are especially constructed to take a firm grip in a ballasted roadbcd and are provided with novel fasteners for'retaining rails upon the tie.

A particular feature. of my invention resides in the rail-fastener, which can be easily and quickly placed in position, not necessitating the use of skilled labor.

My improved tie and rail-fastener dispenses with the spreading and displacement of rails and allows the rails to expand and contract where a joint occurs between two rails.

The detail construction of my improved tie and rail-fastener will be presently described and then specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the. drawings forming part of this specifimttion, like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which Figure 1 is a perspective View of my im proved tie and rail-fastener. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same, and Fig. 3. is an enlarged perspective View of the railfasteners of a tie.

My ii'nproved tie is constructed of strong and durable metal and conforms to a channel-bar approximately the same length as the wood ties in. use. The channel-bar consists of side walls 1 1, a raised bottom plate 2, and

a top plate 3. The raised bottom plate 2 is })I()Vl( ed to form an oblong pocket 4 for the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed J uly. 2, 1906. Serial No. 324,341.

Patented 'Oct. 1 6, '1906.

placed when once embedded in the ballast of the road-bed. I

The side walls 1 1 adjacent to the ends of the tie are cut away to provide rail-seats 5. The sides 1 at the end of the tie are formed with integral fish-bars 6, adapted to embrace the outer sides of the rails 7, mounted upon the seats 5 of the tie.

The top 3 of the tie is cut away to provide openings 8 for my im roved rail-fastener, which will be presently v cscribed. The ends of the tie are partially closed by plates 9, which may be made a art of the bottom 2 or may be separate an suitably secured between the side Walls 1 1 of the tie. These plates extend below the bottom plate '2 and are adapted to prevent the ballast from entering the tie, also preventing lateral dis lacement of the tie when used upon a road- )ed.

My improved railfasteners consist of blocks 10, adapted to engage the inner sides of the web portions of the rail 7. The blocks 10 are )rovided with web portions 11, having depen ing lugs 12, said lugs being provided with transverse openings 14, whereby the fasteners can be secured in the tie by bolts and nuts 15. The boltsiare adapted to extend through the side walls 1 of the tie and be secured therein by a nut or bur, which can be provided with a conventional form of nut-lock. (Not shown.)

' When the tie has been properly positioned v in a ballasted road bed, the rails 7 are placed upon their seats 5 and the blocks placed in engagement with said rails, whereby the Web portions 10 of said blocks will extend into the openings 8, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

Since the stresses and'strains of rollingstock passing over the rails have a tendency to spread the rails, I have provided the fishbars 6, which embrace the entire outer side of said rails, while the fasteners serve to maintain the rails in engagement with said bars. By the novel construction of my improved tie and rail-fasteners it will be impossible for vertical displacement of the rails to occur,

inasmuch as the base portions of the rails are firmly held by the fish-bars 6 and the fasteners or blocks 10.

When my improved tie is rolled and afterward milled or machined, the top of the tie-3 ma be made a separate and distinct piece, which can be placed in the tie after the same has been rolled and properl machined.

My invention particular y resides in the raised bottom of the tie and the novel fasteners which I employ in connection with the same.

It is obvious that such changes in the details of construction as are permissible by the appended claims may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let-. ters Patent, is-

1. In a metallic tieand rail-fastener, the combinaton with rails, of a channel-shapml tie comprising side walls, a top, and a raised bottom plate, plates closing the ends of said tie and having depending extensions, the side walls of said tie being cut away to form seats for said rails, fish-bars carried by the side walls of said tie adjacent to its ends to embrace the outer sides of said rails, fasteners engaging the inner sides of said rails, and extending into said tic, bolts assing through the side walls of said tie an said fasteners,

and nuts retaining said bolts within said tie, substantially as described.

2. In a metallic tie and rail-fastener, the combination with the rails, of a channelshaped tie com )rising side walls, a top, a raised bottom p late, and end-closing lates, said side walls being cut away to provk e railseats, fish-bars carried by said side plates to embrace the base and web portions of the rails, fasteners engaging the inner side of the rails and extending through openings in the top ol' the tie, securingbolts for said fasteners extending through the side walls of the tie and through the fasteners, and retaming-nuts for said bolts.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

LEWIS II. P FLEGHARDT. 

